IOWA CITY, Iowa - The Illinois State baseball team has won seven of its last nine games and is set to take on Iowa, which sits at 31-11.
SCHEDULE (AT IOWA)
Tuesday at 6:05 p.m. CT | VIDEO | LIVE STATS
ILLINOIS STATE PROJECTED STARTING PITCHER
TBD
ABOUT THE IOWA HAWKEYES
Iowa was 36-19 in 2022, going 16-7 at home. The Hawkeyes are 31-11 to start 2023. Iowa is 16-2 at home. Iowa is also scheduled to face common non-conference opponents with ISU: Bradley, Minnesota, UIC, Nebraska, Milwaukee.
The Redbirds and Hawkeyes have met 22 times previously, with Illinois State leading, 14-8. Their first meeting was in 1975. Illinois State has won four-straight against Iowa.
Illinois State defeated Iowa 5-3 on 3/28/23 in the teams' first meeting in Normal since 2009.
SERIES WIN AT SIU
Although ISU was run-ruled in the opening game and trailing after six innings on both Saturday and Sunday, ISU rallied to win the series at SIU.
Third-year junior Elijah Dale stranded runners on second and third in Saturday's game while the Redbirds scored in the 10th, 11th , and 12th innings in Sunday's game to win.
Third-year junior Luke Cheng and second-year sophomore Noah Rabin each hit their first career HR while freshman Daniel Pacella hit his 13th.
WIN VS NIU
Despite having only thrown a third of an inning with a 54.00 ERA entering the game, fourth-year sophomore Zach Holcomb threw four scoreless innings in relief, striking out six and allowing a bloop single and HBP.
Freshman Daniel Pacella hit his 12th HR of the year while freshman Shai Robinson reached base four times and fourth-year junior Shaydon Kubo had three hits.
WIN VS LINDENWOOD
Third-year junior Auggie Rasmussen hit two home runs, freshman Shai Robinson had four hits, and freshman Daniel Pacella had three hits to lead Illinois State to the win in the first meeting between the programs.
STEWART RETURN TO MLB
Redbird baseball alum Brock Stewart was called up on April 25 for the Minnesota Twins - he had last pitched in the MLB with Toronto on 9/24/19 but completed the road back to Big Leagues after Tommy John surgery. Stewart threw two scoreless innings with three strikeouts on April 27 against Kansas City.
HEADRICK MLB DEBUT
Redbird baseball alum Brent Headrick was called up on April 16 for the Minnesota Twins and made his MLB debut on Wednesday at Boston. Headrick was perfect in his first two innings in relief, highlighted by a strikeout of Silver Slugger Rafael Devers, and ultimately completed three innings to record the save in his first Big League appearance. Headrick also threw five innings on April 26 with eight strikeouts against the Yankees, including one against Aaron Judge.
LINDGREN MAJOR LEAGUE DEBUT
Redbird baseball alum Jeff Lindgren was called up on April 3 for the Miami Marlins and made his MLB debut in relief against the Minnesota Twins. The Champaign, Ill. native threw five innings, allowing four runs. Lindgren's final two innings were scoreless.
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